Yshtola by nexusan

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger and attrition control deck commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy focuses on accelerating through 2-mana artifacts and cost reducers to deploy Y'shtola by Turn 4. Once assembled, casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater triggers symmetric burn against opponents, provides life gain, and refuels your hand when life loss thresholds are met. The deck controls the game pace using combat deterrents like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda, backed by an extensive suite of versatile removal and countermagic. After blunting aggressive pressure and generating card advantage, the deck transitions into its primary win condition, Approach of the Second Sun, or an alternate life-drain burst via Exsanguinate and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang's Iceberg
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Emergency Eject
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Parasitic Impetus
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Pointed Discussion
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Redemption Arc
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Reverse the Polarity
  • 1 Revival // Revenge
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vindictive Triumph
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed